Walt Disney Stories Carl barks cover restoration

Here's another piece I was hired to restore. This Barks piece had the usual problem - it was just a square of art without any context of being a cover. My task was twofold - first, I mounted the art on a properly sized and color matched larger backing board in the size and scale of that period. Second, I digitally removed the logo and text elements from the published cover, removed the colors, sharpened and scaled them and printed them on color matched stat-like paper. After pasting up all the text on the piece with archival adhesive, that isolated piece of art had become an actual cover!

(James is available for hire to replace missing logos and lettering on comic book and comic strip art and to do cover re-creations and commissions. Please contact him with any questions or for a price quote. If you wish the restoration work to be private, upon your request, no images will be used in James’ public galleries.)